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TEN YEARS AGO, Sarah Morse saw a puppeteer in Germany perform the Creation story. Hiding behind a screen and wearing black gloves, "The puppeteer's hands came down like the hands of God, folding ...

Puppets weren’t a common form of entertainment in Jewish culture. Eddy Portnoy Three of Yosl Cutler’s surviving puppets: two Jewish characters and one Russian. These were constructed circa 1933.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — New York Folklore is putting on its final event in a free, three-part showcase of the Capital Region’s folk music traditions. The show will feature The Kleiner Klezmer ...

Throughout the city, new versions of old songs, and celebrations of the people who preserved them. (New York Jewish Week) — As they say in the mameloshn (mother tongue), “Dos Yidish lid iz umetum.” In ...

(AP) Chana Mlotek, a noted archivist of Yiddish folk music and an impassioned collector of Yiddish songs from the shtetls of Europe, has died at age 91. She died of cancer Monday at her Bronx home, ...

The An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble, a musical quartet, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the historic An-sky expeditions by playing rare... Yiddish Preservationists Take Their Subject To The Stage ...